Qastrocam Alternatives

Qastrocam is described as 'Capture program to do astrophotography. It can control a telescope to do guiding with the images received from a V4L device. It can also control the extended features of a webcam modified to do long exposure (several seconds) captures' and is an app in the education & reference category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Qastrocam for Windows, Mac, Linux, iPhone and Raspberry Pi. The best Qastrocam alternative is DeepSkyStacker, which is free. Other great apps like Qastrocam are IRIS Astronomical Images, SharpCap, AstroImager and Voyager Astrophotography.

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  1. DeepSkyStacker icon

    DeepSkyStacker

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    DeepSkyStacker is a freeware for astrophotographers that simplifies all the pre-processing steps of deep sky pictures.

    12 DeepSkyStacker alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    • DeepSkyStacker is the most popular Windows alternative to Qastrocam.

    • DeepSkyStacker is the most popular free alternative to Qastrocam.

    • DeepSkyStacker is Free and ProprietaryQastrocam is Free and Open Source
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    SharpCap

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    SharpCap is an easy-to-use and powerful astronomy camera capture tool. It can be used with dedicated astronomy cameras, webcams and USB frame grabbers.

    12 SharpCap alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  5. AstroImager icon

    AstroImager

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    AstroImager is a powerful, but easy to use image capture application for the astrophotography.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
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    • AstroImager is the most popular Mac & iPhone alternative to Qastrocam.

    • AstroImager is the most popular commercial alternative to Qastrocam.

    • AstroImager is Paid and ProprietaryQastrocam is Free and Open Source

  6. Voyager Astrophotography

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    Voyager is a multi core optimized software, resilient, with advanced built-in algorithms and advanced A.I. driven automatation for astro photography.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  7. APT (Astro Photography Tool)

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    APT stands for "AstroPhotography Tool" and it is like Swiss army knife for your astro imaging sessions. No matter what you are imaging with - Canon EOS, Nikon, CCD or CMOS astro camera, APT has the right tool for planning, collimating, aligning, focusing, framing...

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  9. BackyardEOS

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    BackyardEOS is software tailor made to control your Canon DSLR camera. It is purposely built with astro-photography in mind.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  10. FireCapture

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    FireCapture has evolved into one of the leading planetary capturing tools.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Raspberry Pi
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    • FireCapture is the most popular Linux alternative to Qastrocam.

    • FireCapture is Free and ProprietaryQastrocam is Free and Open Source

  11. Nebulosity

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    Nebulosity is designed to be a powerful, but simple to use capture and processing application for Windows (7/8/10 32/64 bit) and OS X (10.7-14). A huge array of cameras are supported for capture (see below) and images from just about anything can be processed (support for many...

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
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  12. SbigControl

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    A low cost alternative control program for your SBIG astronomic camera.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  13. Qastrocam-g2

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    Qastrocam-g2 is a maintained fork of the great Qastrocam, written by F. Sicard. Qastrocam is a capture program to do astrophotography.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
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    • Qastrocam-g2 is the most popular Open Source alternative to Qastrocam.

    • Qastrocam-g2 is Free and Open SourceQastrocam is also Free and Open Source
  14. N.I.N.A. icon

    N.I.N.A.

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    NINA is a night time imaging and astronomy software.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
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